University of Minho
Centre of Oriental Studies
State and Economy in Contemporary China
Additional Reading
The aim of these lists is to allow you to follow up any particular topic in greater depth.
They consist almost exclusively of books: only a few very important journal articles – or,
more often, special issues of journals -- are mentioned. In most cases, I first list a few
works that I feel are particularly important and influential, and then list a range of others
in alphabetical order. The guidance in the course outline gives some advice on how to
find journal articles, which are absolutely essential for up-to-date scholarship. Note that
much more extensive and expert guidance can be found under many topics in the Oxford
Bibliographies in Chinese Studies
(http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/browse?module_0=obo-9780199920082, but,
except for the introductions, the rest of the articles require subscription).
Topic 1
Johnson, Chalmers (1962) Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power, Stanford:
Stanford UP [a classic study of the Chinese revolution],
Bianco, Lucien (1971) The Origins of the Chinese Revolution, Stanford: Stanford UP
[possibly the best general academic overview of this topic]
Friedman, Edward, Pickowicz, Paul G., and Selden, Mark (1991) Chinese Village,
Socialist State, New Haven; Yale UP [An invaluable village study, but remember
that the three American authors were all leading China scholars, mostly leftleaning, at least in their earlier years]
Also
Chen, Yung-fa (1986) Making Revolution: the Communist Movement in Eastern and
Central China, 1937-1945, Berkeley: University of California Press [one of the
most sophisticated local studies.]
Mitter, Rana (2013) China's war with Japan, 1937-1945: the struggle for survival.
London: Penguin Books
Skocpol, Theda (1979) States and social revolutions: a comparative analysis of France,
Russia and China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [leading theoretical
work on revolutions]
Histories of the Communist Party can be found in
Harrison, James P. (1973) The Long March to Power: a History of the Chinese
Communist Party, 1921-72, London: Macmillan
and
Saich, Tony (1995) The Rise of Power of the Chinese Communist Party: Documents and
Analysis, Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe.
On Mao, probably the best place to start is:
Cheek, Timothy (ed) (2010) A critical introduction to Mao, Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Biographies include most famously (but not necessarily most reliably) :
Chang, Jung and Halliday, Jon (2005) Mao: the unknown story. London, Jonathan Cape.
but also
Short, Philip (1999) Mao: A Life, London: Hodder & Stoughton
Spence, Jonathon (1999) Mao, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Schram, Stuart (1966) Mao Tse-tung, Harmondsworth: Penguin
Schram, Stuart (ed.) (1974) Mao Tse-tung Unrehearsed, Harmondsworth: Penguin
Terrill, Ross (1999) Madame Mao: The White-boned Demon, Stanford: Stanford UP
If you read Chang and Halliday, be sure to look at some of the reviews from scholars
with a good knowledge of China, such as ideally
Benton, Greg and Lin Chun, eds (2010) Was Mao Really a Monster?: The Academic
Response to Chang and Halliday's Mao, The Unknown Story. London: Routledge,
2010.
Or
Benton, Greg, et al (2006) “Mao: The Unknown Story – An Assessment”, China Journal
55 (January): 95-139
but at least
Spence, Jonathan, (2005) Review of Mao: The Unknown Story, New York Review of
Books, 52.17 (3 November):23-27
This unit looks at somewhat “dry” academic analyses of the Chinese revolution. For
those of you who are interested, however, there are some outstanding first-hand accounts
by Western journalists or participants. Two of the best-known are
Hinton, William (1966) Fanshen, New York: Monthly Review.
And
Belden, Jack (1973) China Shakes the World, London: Penguin Books
The first focuses on a single village, and is a very powerful, though quite long, account of
the revolution in that village in 1947-48. I certainly couldn’t put it down the first time I
read it. The second is a broader treatment of the Chinese revolution by a sympathetic
American journalist. It has several chapters which give very good summaries of the way
the Chinese Communists wanted to portray their own revolution (see for example the one
on women’s liberation, which we would look at somewhat differently now). Both these
books would offer very stimulating additions to the reading for this unit, though of course
they are not central to the concerns of the module as a whole.
The War
Mitter, Rana (2013) China’s War with Japan. Penguin.
The 1950s
Dikotter, Frank (2013) The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution
1945. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. (Useful though partial and partisan
corrective for excessively optimistic views of the 1950s.)
Great Leap Forward
Key treatments can be found in
Yang Jisheng (2012) Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao’s Great Famine, London:
Allen Lane [English translation of book first published in Chinese by someone
who used to be a journalist in China]
Teiwes, Fred (1999) China's Road to Disaster: Mao, Central Politicians, and Provincial
Leaders in the Unfolding of the Great Leap Forward, 1955-1959, Armonk, N.Y.:
M.E. Sharpe.
MacFarquhar, Roderick (1986) The origins of the Cultural Revolution - 2: The Great
Leap Forward, 1958-1960, Oxford: Oxford UP.
Dikotter, Frank (2010) Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating
Catastrophe, 1958-62, Bloomsbury (Dikotter’s high – 45 million – estimates for
casualties are controversial).
Joseph, William A. (1986) “A Tragedy of Good Intentions: Post-Mao Views of the Great
Leap Forward”, Modern China 12(4): 419-457
Lippit, Victor (1975) “The great leap forward reconsidered”, Modern China, 1(1): 92-115
Cultural Revolution
There is a vast range of literature. For recent scholarship see
Esherick, Joseph, Pickowicz, Paul and Walder, Andrew (2006) The Chinese Cultural
Revolution as History, Stanford: Stanford UP.
MacFarquhar, Roderick, and Schoenhals, Michael (2006) Mao’s Last Revolution,
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard UP (Major work from a Pekingological standpoint;
little on broader social issues, but the most advanced treatment from an elite
perspective).
Walder, Andrew (2002) “Beijing Red Guard Factionalism: Social Interpretations
Reconsidered”, Journal of Asian Studies 61.2: 437-72
Walder, Andrew (2009) Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement,
Cambridge; Harvard University Press
Gao, Mobo (1999) Gao Village. London: Hurst & Co
(see also two reviews of Cultural Revolution memoirs etc by Mobo Gao in
Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, 1994, no. 3 and 1995, no. 1)
Gao Mobo (2008) The Battle for China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution,
London: Pluto Press
Important earlier work includes
Chan, Anita, Rosen, Stanley Rosen and Unger, Jonathan (1981) “Students and Class
Warfare: The Social Roots of the Red Guard Conflict in Guangzhou”, China
Quarterly 83: 397-446
Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs (1986) “Mao Zedong: Ten Years After”, Australian
Journal of Chinese Affairs, 16: 1-118
Leys, Simon (1977) The Chairman’s New Clothes, New York: St Martins Press is a very
well written and highly sceptical account of the Cultural Revolution written by a
Belgian diplomat.
Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (1981) –pp. 20-26 and 29-35 are
particularly relevant to the evaluation of the Cultural Revolution. (extracts
available online at http://www.idcpc.org.cn/english/maozedong/comments.htm)
Dirlik, Arif (2003) “The Politics of the Cultural Revolution in Historical Perspective”, pp.
in Kam-yee Law (ed) The Chinese Cultural Revolution Reconsidered: Beyond
Purge and Holocaust, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 158-183
Thurston, Anne (1988) Enemies of the People: The Ordeal of the Intellectuals in China’s
Great Cultural Revolution. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press
Walder, Andrew G and Su Yang (2003) “The Cultural Revolution in the Countryside:
Scope, Timing and Human Impact”, China Quarterly 173 (March): 74-99
For memoirs and literary treatments of the topic see
Liang Heng and Shapiro, Judith (1983) Son of the Revolution, London: Chatto & Windus
Chang, Jung (1993) Wild Swans, London: Flamingo
Siu, Helen F. and Stern, Zelda (eds) (1983) Mao’s Harvest: Voices from China’s New
Generation, New York: Oxford UP
In addition some film treatments, for example Chen Kaige’s Farewell to my Concubine
or Zhang Yimou's To Live, are very illuminating.
For an account of a western student’s life in 1970s Beijing see
Hooper, Beverley (1979) Inside Peking, London: Macdonald and Jane’s
Topic 2
See the memoirs of China’s reformist premier, Zhao Ziyang in: Zhao Ziyang (2009)
Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang, New York:
Simon & Schuster.
Excellent studies of the reform period can be found in
Baum, Richard (1994) Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping.
Princeton: Princeton UP. [The best narrative account of politics from the death of
Mao to the early 90s]
Fewsmith, Joseph (2001) China Since Tiananmen: The Politics of Transition, Cambridge:
Cambridge UP
Lieberthal, Kenneth (1995) Governing China, New York: W. W. Norton
Shirk, Susan (1993) The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China, Berkeley:
University of California Press. [a crucial discussion of the role of decentralization
in promoting growth].
White, Gordon (1993) Riding the Tiger: The Politics of Economic Reform in Post Mao
China, Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Zheng, Yongnian (2013) Contemporary China: A History since 1978. London: WileyBlackwell [Zheng is one of the best scholars of contemporary politics; as you will
see from the publication dates, this is by far the most up to date of these surveys]
Specific issues are covered in
Bell, Daniel (2008) China's New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a
Changing Society. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.
Benton, Gregor and Hunter, Alan (eds) (1995) Wild Lily: Prairie Fire: China’s Road to
Democracy, 1942–1989, Princeton, NJ: Princeton UP, pp. 317–327
Bianco, Lucien (2010) La revolution fourvoyée: Parcours dans la Chinese du xxesiècle.
Paris: editions de l’aube. [Bianco is one of the best scholars of twentieth century
China, focussing especially, though not only on rural issues, and this collection
brings together a number of his essays over recent years.]
China Journal (1995) “The Nature of Chinese Politics”, The China Journal 34:1-208 and
(2001) “The Nature of Chinese Politics Today”, The China Journal 45: 21-144
provide some theoretical background.
Guo, Sujian (2013) Chinese Politics and Government: Power, ideology and organization.
London: Routledge [extensive textbook treatment]
Hughes, Christopher and Gudrun Wacker, eds (2003) China and the Internet: Politics of
the Digital Leap Forward, London: Routledge.
Leonard, Mark (2007) What Does China Think? London: Fourth Estate [intellectual
trends in Chinese politics]
McGregor, Richard (2010) The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers,
London: Harper Collins.
Nathan, Andrew (1997) China’s Transition, New York: Columbia UP pp. 63–89
Nathan, Andrew and Gilley, Bruce (eds) (2002) China’s New Rulers: The Secret Files,
London: Granta Books
Nathan, Andrew, Larry Diamond and Mark F. Plattner (eds) (2013) Will China
Democratize? Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press [extensive collection of
short articles embodying a range of views]
Oksenberg, Michel (2001) “China’s Political System: Challenges of the 21st Century”,
The China Journal 45: 21-36
Shambaugh, David (2002) Modernizing China’s Military, Los Angeles: University of
California Press.
Shambaugh, David (2008) Chinas Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation, Berkeley:
University of California Press
Vogel, Ezra (2011) Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China. Cambridge, MASS:
Belknap Press. [Leading recent biography of Deng]
Walder, Andrew G. (1994) “The decline of communist power: elements of a theory of
institutional change”, Theory and Society 23: 297-323
Yang, Dali L. (ed) (2009) China’s Reforms at 30: Challenges and Prospects, London:
World Scientific.
Yu, Keping (2008) Globalization and changes in China's governance. Leiden: Brill,.
Zheng, Yongnian (2010) The Chinese Communist Party as Organizational Emperor,
London: Routledge [Interesting and well written, though I feel he overstates
China’s uniqueness – e.g. by underplaying the influence of the Soviet Communist
Party]
Zhou, Kate Xiao, Shelley Rigger, and Lynn T. White II (eds) (2014) Democratization in
China, Korea and Southeast Asia? Local and national perspectives New York:
Routledge [important comparative perspective]
Finally Asian Survey publishes annual surveys of Chinese politics, most recently
Heberer, Thomas (2015) “China in 2014: Creating a New Power and Security
Architecture in Domestic and Foreign Policies”, Asian Survey 55.1: 82-102.
Topic 3
State capacity
Naughton, Barry J. and Yang, Dali L (eds) (2004) Holding China together: diversity and
national integration in the post-Deng era. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press [an excellent treatment of recent issues regarding state capacity]
Also
Chang, Gordon (2002) The Coming Collapse of China, London: Arrow
Schwartz, Jonathan (2003) “The Impact of State Capacity on Enforcement of
Environmental Policies: The Case of China”, Journal of Environment &
Development 12(1) (March) pp. 50-81
Skocpol, Theda (1985) “Bringing the State Back In: Strategies of Analysis in Current
Research”, in Peter B. Evans, Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol, eds,
Bringing the State Back In
Wright, Tim (2012) The Political Economy of the Chinese Coal Industry: Black Gold and
Blood-stained Coal, London: Routledge.
The legal system
Lubman, Stanley (1999) Bird in a Cage: Legal Reform in China After Mao, Stanford:
Stanford UP.
Peerenboom, Randall B. (2002) China's long march toward rule of law, Cambridge:
Cambridge UP.
Liang, Bin (2008) The Changing Chinese Legal System, 1978-Present, London:
Routledge [relatively recent review with a lot of statistics]
Also
Alford, William P. (1997) “Law, Law, What Law? Why Western Scholars of Chinese
History and Society Have Not Had More to Say about its Law”, Modern China
23(4): 398-419
Baker, Dennis J and Zhao, Lucy X (2009) “Responsibility links fair labelling and
proportionality in China; Comparing China’s criminal law theory and practice’,
UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, 14: 1-56
Li, Linda Chelan (2000) “The ‘Role of Law’ Policy in Guangdong: Continuity or
Departure? Meaning, Significance and Processes”, China Quarterly 161: 199220.
Mühlhahn, Klaus (2009) Criminal Justice in China: A History, Cambridge, MASS:
Harvard UP.
Potter, Pittman B. (2013) China’s Legal System. Cambridge: Cambridge UP
Oakley, Sheila (2002) Labor relations in China's socialist market economy: adapting to
the global market, Westport, Connecticut: Quorum Books [legal processes in
labour disputes].
State Council (2008) “White Paper: China's Efforts and Achievements in Promoting the
Rule of Law”, available online at http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/200802/28/content_7687418.htm (or more conveniently at
http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/china_law_prof_blog/2008/02/state-councili.html)
Stephens, Thomas B (1992) Order and Discipline in China. Seattle: University of
Washington Press, esp. ch. 2
Svensson, Marina (2002) Debating human rights in China: a conceptual and political
history, London: Rowman & Littlefield. [a sophisticated analysis of the human
rights question].
Tokley, I. A. (1998) Company and Securities Law in China, Hong Kong: Sweet &
Maxwell Asia
Turner, Karen G. (ed.) (2000) The Limits of the Rule of Law in China, Seattle: University
of Washington Press
Wang Chenguang and Zhang Xianchu (eds) (1997) Introduction to Chinese Law, Hong
Kong: Sweet & Maxwell Asia
Xia Yong (1998) “Human Rights and Chinese Tradition”, pp. 23–31 in Michael Dutton,
Streetlife China, Cambridge: Cambridge UP
Topic 4
Emmot, Bill (2009) Rivals: How the Power Struggle between China, India and Japan
Will Shape Our Next Decade, London: Penguin [by the ex-editor of The
Economist]
Goldstein, Avery (2005) Rising to the Challenge: China's Grand Strategy and
International Security, Stanford: Stanford UP [a useful theoretical framework for
the study of many issues of Chinese foreign relations].
Jacques, Martin (2009) When China Rules the World: The Rise of the Middle Kingdom
and the End of the Western World, London: Allen Lane [controversial, and I don’t
accept his argument, but informative and stimulating; somewhat extreme
statement of the “China is China” position]
Johnston, Alistair Iain and Ross, Robert S. (eds) (2006) New Directions in the Study of
China’s Foreign Policy, Stanford: Stanford University Press [recent set of papers
by leading scholars]
Lanteigne, Marc (2013) Chinese Foreign Policy: An Introduction, 2nd edition, New York:
Routledge [very useful recent introduction]
Shambaugh, David, Sandschneider, Eberhard and Zhou Hong (eds) (2008) China-Europe
Relations: Perceptions, Policies and Prospects, London: Routledge
Shirk, Susan (2007) China: Fragile Superpower, Oxford: OUP [first-class account by top
academic who also served in Clinton administration]
Also
Austin, Greg and Stuart Harris (1999) Japan and Greater China. London: Hurst
Bergsten, C. Fred (2008) China's rise: challenges and opportunities. Washington, D.C.
London : Peterson Institute for International Economics : Center for Strategic and
International Studies
Bernstein, Richard and Munro, Ross (1998) The Coming Conflict with China, New York:
Random House was an important, though controversial, part of the debate.
Callaghan, William (2010) China: the Pessoptimist Nation, Oxford: Oxford University
Press.
Crossick, Stanley and Reuter, Etienne (eds) (2007) China-EU: A Common Future,
Singapore: World Scientific.
Des Forges, Roger and Luo Xu (2001) “China as a Non-Hegemonic Superpower? The
Uses of History among the China Can Say No Writers and Their Critics”, Critical
Asian Studies 33.4: 483-507.
Dong, Lisheng, Zhengxu Wang and Henk Dekker (eds) (2013) China and the European
Union. London: Routledge [Focuses on Chinese views]
Friedberg, Aaron L. (2000) “The Struggle for Mastery in Asia”, Commentary Magazine
110.4, [a neo-conservative ultra-realist view, from someone who has been
employed by the Bush administration.
Commentary 2001.]
See also the series of responses in
Friedman, Edward and McCormick, Barrett (eds) (2000) What if China Doesn’t
Democratize?: Implications for War and Peace. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.
Goldstein, Avery (2001) “The Diplomatic Face of China's Grand Strategy: A Rising
Power's Emerging Choice”, China Quarterly 168 (September): 835-864
Jia Qingguo (2005) “Learning to Live with the Hegemon: evolution of China’s policy
toward the US since the end of the Cold War”, Journal of Contemporary China
14.44 (August): 395-407
Johnston, Alistair Iain (ed) (1999) Engaging China: The Management of an Emerging
Power. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
Journal of Contemporary China (2001) “Debating China’s International Future” special
issue of Journal of Contemporary China 10
Kissinger, Henry (2011) On China. London: Allen Lane [Not necessarily taken seriously
from a scholarly point of view, but obviously Kissinger was a major player]
Manicom, James (2014) Bridging troubled waters: China, Japan, and maritime order in
the East China Sea. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press
Robinson, Thomas W. (ed) (1994) Chinese Foreign Policy: Theory and Practice, Oxford:
Clarendon Press [the standard survey],
Scott, David (2007) “China-EU convergence 1957–2003: towards a ‘strategic
partnership'”, Asia-Europe Journal, 5: 217-223.
Segal, Gerald (1999) “Does China Matter?”, Foreign Affairs 78(5): 24-36.
Shambaugh, David, (ed.) (2005) Power Shift: China and Asia’s New Dynamics,
Berkeley, University of California Press [focuses mainly on Asia].
Shambaugh, David (2013) China Goes Global: The Partial Power. Oxford: Oxford UP
[attempt to capture the big picture; argues that China’s power is not nearly as
great as it appears]
Sutter, Robert G. (2012) Chinese Foreign Relations: Power and Policy since the Cold
War, 3rd edition, London: Rowman & Littlefield [Overview by a former
government analyst. Concentrates mainly on a series of bilaterial relationships]
Womack, Brantley (ed) (2010) China’s Rise in Historical Perspective, New York:
Rowman and Littlefield [series of chapters on history of China’s rise]
Ye Zicheng (2011) Inside China’s Grand Strategy: The Perspective from the People’s
Republic. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.
You Ji and Jia Qingguo (1998) “China’s Re-emergence – The Foreign Policy Strategy”,
125-156 in China Review 1998
Zhang Li (2011) New Media and EU China Relations, Houndmills: Palgrave.
Topic 5
Bramall, Chris (2000) Sources of Chinese Economic Growth 1978-1996, Oxford: Oxford
UP
Naughton, Barry (1995) Growing Out of the Plan, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, chs. 1, 2
and 9.
Shirk, Susan (1993) The Political Logic of Economic Reform in China, Berkeley:
University of California Press. [a crucial discussion of the role of decentralization
in promoting growth].
Also
Bramall, Chris (2007) The Industrialisation of Rural China, Oxford: Oxford University
Press
'The Chinese Economy in Transition', special issue of China Quarterly (Dec 1995).
Communiqué of the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee of the
Communist Party of China in Liu Suinian and Wu Qungan (1986) China's
Socialist Economy, Beijing, Beijing Review Press, Appendix 3 [even more
interesting is the 'official' CCP history of China's development, "On Questions of
Party History", also in Appendix 3].
'Excerpts from talks given in Wuchang, Shenzhen, Zhuhai and Shanghai' (1992) in Deng
Xiaoping (1994) Selected Works 1982-1992, volume III, Beijing: Foreign
Languages Press. Excerpts from this document also in Yabuki, S. (first edition)
(1995) China's New Political Economy, Boulder: Westview, appendix 1.
Lal, Deepak (1995) 'India and China: Contrasts in Liberalization?', World Development,
9(23) September.
Lardy, Nicholas R. (1998) China's Unfinished Revolution, Washington: Brookings.
McMillan, J. and Naughton, B., 'How to reform a planned economy,' Oxford Review of
Economic Policy (spring 1992) [a good early discussion of the issues]
Minami, Ryoshin (1994) The Economic Development of China, London: Macmillan
[good long run overview with useful comparisons with Japan].
Naughton, Barry (1988) 'The Third Front', The China Quarterly, 115, September [the
Third Front was more important than the Cultural Revolution in its economic
impact during the late Maoist era].
Nolan, Peter (1995) China's Rise, Russia's Fall, London: Macmillan, ch.4.
Oi, Jean C. (1995) 'The role of the local state in China's transitional economy', The China
Quarterly, no.144, December.
Riskin, Carl (1987) China's Political Economy, Oxford: Oxford UP [an excellent
textbook-style study of the economics of the Maoist era], chs. 11-14.
Sachs, Jeffrey and Woo, Wing-Thye (1994) 'Structural factors in the economic reforms of
China, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union', Economic Policy, 18(1)
April.
Sun Yan (1995) The Chinese Reassessment of Socialism, 1976-1992, Princeton:
Princeton UP. [very good on the political debates].
Xu Dixin (1982) China's Search for Economic Growth, Beijing: New World Press, ch. 1
[Chinese perspective on late Maoist economic weakness].
Zhu Rongji (2011) Zhu Rongji meets the Press, Hongkong: Oxford University Press [Zhu
was one of the key architects of reform]
Topic 6
Hutton, Will (2007) The Writing on the Wall: China and the West in the 21st Century,
London, Little Brown [an important overview by a leading political player in the
UK]
Islam, Nazrul (ed) (2009) Resurgent China: Issues for the Future, Houndmills: Palgrave
[first class recent set of essays]
Maddison, Angus (1998) Chinese Economic Performance in the Long Run, Paris:
OECD[an attempt to sift through the Chinese data by the world's leading national
income
accountant;
also
see
Maddison’s
database
at
http://www.ggdc.net/maddison/].
Wu Jinglian (2005) Understanding and interpreting Chinese economic reform, New
York: Thompson [a major text by China’s leading liberal economic thinker
translated from the Chinese]
Chow, Gregory and Perkins, Dwight, eds (2014) Routledge handbook of the Chinese
economy. London: Routledge
Also
Chai, Joseph C. H. (2011) An Economic History of Modern China. Cheltenham: Edward
Elgar [relatively long-term view]
Chow, G. C. (2002) China's Economic Transformation, chs. 3 & 4 [Chow’s work is the
most theoretical of general works on China’s economy].
Chow, Gregory (2010) Interpreting China’s Economy, London: World Scientific [This is
a relatively accessible series of newspaper articles]
Coase, Ronald and Wang Ning (2011) How China Became Capitalist, Houndmills:
Palgrave Macmillan [Coase is a first-rank economic theorist]
Economy, Elizabeth (2004) The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to
China's Future, Ithaca: Cornell University Press
Hurst, William (2009) The Chinese Worker after Socialism. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
Lardy, Nicholas (2012) Sustaining China's economic growth after the global financial
crisis. Washington DC: Peterson Institute for International Economics [Lardy is
one of the best economists working on China.]
Lardy, Nicholas (2014) Markets over Mao: the rise of private business in China.
Washington, DC : Peterson Institute for International Economics (Important work
arguing for the importance of private enterprise in the Chinese miracle, rather
than the state or the SOEs).
Li Tieying, chief ed. (2011) Reforming China. 5 vols. Singapore: Enrich Professional
Publishing [A more or less official view from the PRC]
Lin, Justin Yifu (2014) New paradigm for interpreting the Chinese economy: theories,
challenges and opportunities. Singapore : World Scientific Publishing [Lin, who
has a very interesting history, is one of the most prominent economists in China]
Naughton, Barry (2013) Wu Jinglian: Voice of Reform in China. Cambridge, Mass: MIT
Press.
Nolan, Peter (2014) Re-Balancing China: Essays on the Global Financial Crisis,
Industrial Policy and International Relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press [Nolan is always interesting]
Ravallion, Martin and Shaohua Chen (2004) “China's (uneven) progress against poverty”,
World Bank Paper WPS3408, http://wwwwds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/IW3P/IB/2004/10/08/00
0012009_20041008125921/Rendered/PDF/WPS3408.pdf
Rawski, Thomas G. (2001) 'What is happening to China's GDP statistics?', China
Economic Review, vol. 12.
Sachs, J. (2005) The End of Poverty, London: Allen Lane, ch. 8.
Steinfeld, Edward S. (2010) Playing our Game: Why China's Economic Rise Doesn't
Threaten the West, New York: Oxford University Press.
Wong, John and Wei Liu (eds) (2007) China’s Surging Economy: Adjusting for more
Balanced Development, Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co.
Woo, W.T. (2001) 'Recent claims of China's economic exceptionalism', China Economic
Review, pps.107-136.
Yang, Dali L (ed) (2012) The Global Recession and China’s Political Economy. New
York: Palgrave [Strong series of papers on political economy developments in
China since the recession]
Topic 7
Huang, Yasheng (2003) Selling China: foreign direct investment during the reform era,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Lardy, Nicholas R. (2002) Integrating China into the Global Economy, Washington DC:
Brookings, 2002.
Also
Deng Xiaoping, 'Remarks made during an inspection tour of Shanghai' (1991) in Deng
Xiaoping (1994) Selected Works 1982-1992, volume III, Beijing: Foreign
Languages Press.
Fewsmith, Joseph (2001) 'The political and social implications of China's accession to the
WTO', China Quarterly, no. 167, September.
Hook, Brian (1996) Guangdong: China's Promised Land, Hong Kong: Oxford UP.
C951.127(G)
Howell, Jude (1993) China Opens Its Doors, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf
[good on Xiamen].
Krugman, Paul (1984) Peddling Prosperity (New York: W. W. Norton, 1984) [the
importance of trade for economic growth].
Lardy, Nicholas R. (1992) Foreign Trade and Economic Reform in China (Cambridge:
Cambridge UP [lots of detail, though now rather dated].
Lardy, Nicholas R. (1995) 'The role of foreign trade and investment in China's economic
transformation', The China Quarterly, no. 144, December.
Martin, Michael F. (2008) “China’s Sovereign Wealth Fund”, CRS Report for Congress
RL34337 available online at
http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/RL34337_20080122.pdf
Naughton, Barry (1997) 'China's emergence and prospects as a trading nation' in
Brainard, W. C. and Perry, G. L. (eds.) Brookings Papers on Economic Activity
1996: 2, Washington DC: Brookings Institute.
OECD (2002) China in the World Economy, summary, ch. 10 and annexes I & II.
Reardon, L. (1998) 'Learning how to open the door', The China Quarterly, no. 155,
September [good on the historical background and the politics] OR Reardon, L.
C. (2002) The Reluctant Dragon, Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Sachs, J. & Woo, W. T. (1994) 'Structural factors in the economic reforms of China,
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union', Economic Policy, no. 18, April OR
Sachs, Jeffrey and Woo, Wing-Thye, 'Chinese economic growth' in Joint
Economic Committee, US Congress, China's Economic Future, Armonk, NY:
ME Sharpe.
Shirk, Susan L. (1994) How China Opened Its Door, Washington DC: Brookings.
Sung Yun-Wing (1991) The China-Hong Kong Connection, Cambridge: Cambridge UP.
Vogel, Ezra F. (1989) One Step Ahead in China, Cambridge MA: Harvard University
Press [excellent on the early years of reform in Guangdong].
Wall, David, Jiang Boke and Yin Xiangshuo (1996) China’s Opening Door, London:
Royal Institute of International Affairs [valuable on SEZs].
World Bank (1997) China Engaged, Washington: World Bank [part of the China 2020
series].
Yang Dali (1997) Beyond Beijing, London: Routledge [useful account of some of the
debates about the impact of SEZs in the 1990s].
Topic 8
Personal experiences
Clissold, Tim (2004) Mr China, London: Robison [A thoughtful and insightful memoir,
by an investment banker].
Mann, Jim (1997) Beijing Jeep: the short, unhappy romance of American business in
China, New York: Simon and Schuster [The classic work of this kind, about
Chrysler’s venture in China in the 1980s. Somewhat outdated now, but it is an
exciting read, and still very relevant to the present situation].
McGregor, James (2005) One Billion Customers: Lessons from the Front Lines of Doing
Business in China, London: Nicholas Brealey [More recent and highly regarded
wide-ranging survey]
Perkowski, Jack (2008) Managing the Dragon, London: Crown [Excellent up to date
account of running a business in China; he worked with Clissold and updates
some of the stories]
Purves, Bill (1991) Barefoot in the boardroom: venture and misadventure in the People's
Republic of China, Sydney: Allen & Unwin [A Canadian businessman running a
very small business in a remote part of China; entertaining and invaluable
insights].
Studwell, Joe (2003) The China Dream: The Elusive Quest for the Greatest Untapped
Market on Earth, London: Profile Books [Less personal than the others, but an
important account of the difficulties of doing business in China]
Guides to doing business in China
Ambler, Tim and Witzel, Morgen (2004) Doing Business in China, 2nd edition, London:
RoutledgeCurzon
Blackman, Carolyn (1997) Negotiating China: case studies and strategies: the hows and
whys of successfully negotiating business with the Chinese, St. Leonards, N.S.W. :
Allen & Unwin [One of the most hands-on guides]
Fang, Tony (1998) Chinese Business Negotiating Style, Thousand Oaks, California: Sage,
Harvard Business School (2004) Harvard Business Review on Doing Business in China,
Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Business School Press
Seligman, Scott D (1999) Chinese business etiquette: a guide to protocol, manners, and
culture in the People's Republic of China, New York: Warner [Perhaps the most
practical of them all]
Tang, Jie and Ward, Anthony (2003) The Changing Face of Chinese Management,
London: RoutledgeCurzon
A Few More Academic Works
Cohen, Jerome (2001), “Settling business disputes with China”, in Richard P. Appelbaum
et al eds, Rules and Networks: The Legal Culture of Global Business
Transactions, Portland: Hart Publishing
Cooke, Fang Lee (2005) HRM, Work and Employment in China, London: Routledge
Fukuyama, Francis (1996) Trust: The Social Virtues and Creation of Prosperity, London:
Hamish Hamilton
Lane, Christel and Bachmann, Reinhard (1998) Trust Within and Between Organizations:
Conceptual Issue and Empirical Applications, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Liu Yadong (2007) Guanxi and Business, 2nd edition, Singapore: World Scientific [a very
clear analysis, with a lot of good examples. Long chapter on foreign business. By
an ex Chinese official]
Oakley, Sheila (2002) Labor relations in China’s socialist market economy: adapting to
the global market, Westport: Quorum Books [Many interesting cases].
Redding, S Gordon (1993) The Spirit of Chinese Capitalism ,Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
[Very influential, though mainly on the overseas Chinese]
Redding, S Gordon and Witt, Michael (2007) The Future of Chinese Capitalism: Choices
and Chances. Oxford: Oxford University Press [Takes very much a cultural
viewpoint; Redding is the most influential exponent of “Chinese Capitalism”.]
Sargeson, Sally (1999) Reworking China's proletariat, Basingstoke: Macmillan [Very
much from the workers’ point of view, but an unparalleled insight into work in
the non-state enterprises in China]
Steinfeld, Edward S (1998) Forging reform in China: the fate of state-owned Industry,
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [A brilliant analysis of the management
of state-owned enterprises in China]
Walder, Andrew G (1987) Communist neo-traditionalism: work and authority in Chinese
Industry, Berkeley: University of California Press [Brilliant sociological analysis
of the world of the Chinese worker]
Wang Hongying (2001) Weak State, Strong Networks: The Institutional Dynamics of
Foreign Direct Investment in China, Oxford: Oxford University Press
Warner, Malcolm (2014) Understanding management in China: past, present and future.
Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge [Warner is one of the leading academic scholars of
Chinese management].